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Health Matters: Organ regeneration on medicine’s horizon

By CONWAY MCLEAN A senior citizen goes to the doctor with a complaint of pain from their wrist. They are prescribed a 3 week course of an anti-inflammatory. The drug provides noticeable benefits, with a significant decrease of pain. When the drug is discontinued, the pain returns. The prescription is renewed, and the discomfort is again largely resolved. Yet, the damaged tissue producing the pain remains unhealed, unattended, problematic. Chronic use of these medications, which is common, can lead to heart attacks, kidney disease, GI bleeds, and more. Not everyone taking these for ...

Community resource fair helps residents

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Connecting the local health- and lifestyle-related programs was the focus of Friday’s Community Resource Fair in the Superior Dome at Northern Michigan University. Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions and the Upper Peninsula ...

Book guides men on helping women recover from rape

MARQUETTE — When Alan McEvoy was in his early 20s, a close friend confided in him that she had been raped. He wanted to help, but said his good intentions collided with his ignorance. McEvoy quickly realized how ill-prepared he was to deal with the complexities and consequences of sexual violence, and to respond with the appropriate language, sensitivity and support that would make him a true ally in her recovery. Recognizing that many men are similarly challenged in such cases, the professor emeritus of sociology at Northern Michigan University has written “When the Subject Is ...

Urology Pearls

In Oxford, England, a group of doctors and scientists have been following men diagnosed with prostate cancer for more than two decades. Why is there a need to follow patients with prostate cancer for such a long period of time? It’s because the disease, despite being called ‘cancer,’ ...

Health Matters

Healthcare in the United States is big business. America spends nearly $4 trillion on health care, making it the most expensive system in the world. With those kinds of numbers, funding our medical care brings some high powered players to the table. But other than Medicare and Medicaid, both ...

More all-terrain wheelchairs added to state parks

LANSING — Three more Michigan state parks will receive all-terrain wheelchairs this summer to make parks more accessible. They include Wilderness State Park in Emmet County, Warren Dunes in Berrien County and North Higgins Lake in Crawford County. That brings the number of state parks ...